Talking to kids about suicide. I’m a children’s-book author, so it is my job to ... s scrupulously well-concealed battle with severe depression. We also worried about making things worse.

"Now in November" is one of the most convincing and hair-raising depictions of the Dust Bowl in the literature of the Depression. Unfortunately, history would find room for only one Dust Bowl ...

The Great Depression had plunged ... illustrated books were among the most beloved. Illiterate adults relied on their literate children to help decipher them. Ethel Perryman supervised women's ...

College football and NFL stadiums were still full, kids went to school ... the lengthy period now known as the Great Depression. As Melloan puts it in the book's introduction, "When Washington ...